Apart from the things I voted for (fun, learning, new tech, itch-scratching, portfolio), I do it for creative control. As a developer with just a little over tw

Apart from the things I voted for (fun, learning, new tech, itch-scratching, portfolio), I do it for creative control. As a developer with just a little over two years experience, the world of work only very rarely seems to give a shit what somebody like me thinks I should do. I spend most of my life building things that other people decided on, in the way they decided, to the schedule they decided. People with more experience and influence than me choose the features, the colours, the technologies, the equipment, the furniture, everything. Don't get me wrong: I don't have a problem with authority and I truly respect all those people and their decisions. But when I get home sometimes all I want to do is escape into something where I get to call the shots.